Mae Tao Clinic

Vaccinating infants in the Child Outpatient Department.
Moh Loh, a technician in the prosthetics department for 8 years, chops the wooden "ankle" of a prosthetic leg. Moh Loh lost his own foot to a landmine in 1999.
Caseload list at Mae Tao Clinic's Prosthetics Department. The vast majority of patients are men who stepped on the many landmines still littered across Karen State's rural areas.
U Myo Win, 45, waits for his "below knee" replacement and new foot. A replacement leg, not including the foot, takes approximately 5 hours to make.
U Myo Win, 45, waits for his "below knee" replacement and new foot. A replacement leg, not including the foot, takes approximately 5 hours to make.
U Myo Win first tests walking on the foot before technician Moh Loh continues building the leg. Moh Loh and U Myo Win were both injured by landmines.
After the plaster dries, the prosthetic is carefully coated with a flesh-colored resin.
Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's poster overlooks the Prosthetics Department.
Donor group Women With a Mission visit Mae Tao Clinic's Reproductive Health Inpatient Department to deliver handknitted blankets to new mothers.
Footprints of the infants and thumbprints of the parents are required for registering births at the clinic.
Weighing an infant at its 7-day checkup.
Pre-natal checkup.
A new mother caresses her premature baby in the incubator.
Young father shares a smile with his new infant.
Ultrasound training with visiting American team. The medics practice on each other in one of Mae Tao Clinic's training classrooms.
Ultrasound training with visiting American team. Dr. Kumar leads medics through the scanning process, explaining the technique and helping them understand the ultrasound image on the screen.
Ultrasound training with visiting American team. Many medics were learning to scan inpatients for the first time.
Medical trainers from the US give a lecture on using the ultrasound for detecting ocular damages.
A visiting team from Ibis Reproductive Health held a training for counselors who would work with sensitive cases of pre-marital pregnancy and women seeking abortions. To loosen the counselors up before discussing these stigmas, the trainers taught them yoga. Most of these women were beginners.
Mother with her two children, in Mae Tao Clinic's Reproductive Health Inpatient Department.
A visiting team from Ibis Reproductive Health trained counselors who would be working with sensitive cases of pre-marital pregnancy and women seeking abortions. Counselors practiced on each other to work on open-minded responses.
A visiting team from Ibis Reproductive Health trained counselors who would be working with sensitive cases of pre-marital pregnancy and women seeking abortions. Counselors worked in small groups to list the stigmas against family planning being taught within a community.

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October 2011 - May 2013
Location: Mae Sot, Thailand

The Mae Tao Clinic, started by Dr. Cynthia Maung in 1989, is the primary care facility for many Burmese living on the border. Helping refugees, uninsured migrant residents of Mae Sot, as well as Burmese who cross the border due to difficulties obtaining care on the other side, the clinic today offers a comprehensive range of services.